Python to report in one command
- 1. PYTHON TO REPORT IN ONE COMMAND Vicky Close, Second Measure
- 2. Talk overview • Communicating insights • Google Apps Script • Coffee
- 3. About me
- 6. My motivation ipython notebook for analysis Report in Google Doc Dashboards (interactive?) Excel spreadsheets
- 8. Existing tools for creating reports • There are lots of options!
- 9. Coffee prices data set ■ http://www.economicswebinstitute.org/ecdata.htm ■ Prices paid to growers in exporting ICO countries for two coffee brands (Arabica and Robusta). ■ Retail price paid by consumer to commercial distributer in importing ICO countries. ■ US cents per lb per month between 1982 and 2001.
- 12. nbconvert ipython nbconvert --to html ipython nbconvert --to latex
- 13. Plotly • Online data visualisation platform. • Written using Python, Django, JavaScript, D3.js. • API library for Python.
- 14. Creating a map using Plotly
- 15. Prices paid to Arabica coffee growers
- 16. HTML reports using Plotly http://moderndata.plot.ly/generate-html-reports-with-python-pandas-and-plotly/
- 17. Jinja2 • Template engine for Python. http://jinja.pocoo.org/ http://pbpython.com/pdf-reports.html
- 24. But… • Not easy for other’s to add comments and edits.
- 25. Google Drive API • One of many Google APIs • Has a python client library • Upload and download files • Convert files https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/quickstart/python#prerequisites
- 33. Google Apps Script • Scripting language for application development in the Google Apps platform. • Create custom sidebars/menus in docs, sheets and forms. • Based on Javascript.
- 36. What is the underlying structure of an ipython notebook? • Four different types of cells • Heading • Markdown • Raw • Code (output)
- 39. Markdown and heading cells
- 40. Code cells: Tables ‘#% table’ at beginning of cell Use output field (html) + beautiful soup.
- 41. Code cells: Images ‘#% figure’ at beginning of cell Extract name of figure
- 42. Json
- 53. Python to report in one command? Step 1: Google Drive API to upload images to Google Drive ipynb Google Drive Step 3: Run Google Apps Script using the Python Execution API. json Google Doc Step 2: Python script to convert ipynb to json.
- 54. What I’ve learnt and what’s next? • Automate report writing • Harder project that I anticipated • Google Apps Script is very versatile • Comments, updates/edits • Spreadsheets